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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Hi, I want to install Linux along side Win 10. (sh.itjust.works)

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Only beacuse there are a couple of softawares that I need that don't run well in Bottles (Nitro Pro and an old app for anothere thing). It's a laptop with CPU i7 and a NVIDIA graphic card 1050 ti. Which distro would be best suited for the task? Is Mint ok? Thank you. Update: Setting the dual boot was getting messy, so I clean installed Mint. I'll try Windows VM later hoping it wont be too difficoult.

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[–] terminal@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I stopped dual booting windows 10 just because it kept messing up my boot loader when it performed certain updates

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well I suppose that issue goes away next month when win 10 goes EOL and stops getting updates.

[–] terminal@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

Hahah very true

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

A workaround would be to cut off Windows Update and manually install major revisions when they get released. You will need to reconstruct grub less often and still remain on latest revisions